A Note About Typography on the Web
Posted January 20th, 2010 by simon.huntley
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I have gotten the question, "why can't I use whacky font x on my farm website?" many times. I think it is time to answer that question!
You can technically use any font on your website, but the hang-up comes that the font must be installed on your visitor's computer for them to see the font correctly. This may change in the future of the web, but for now, we are limited to the number of fonts we can use.
In our control panel's rich text editor, the following fonts are available:
- Andale Mono
- Arial
- Arial Black
- Book Antigua
- Comic Sans MS
- Courier New
- Georgia
- Helvetica
- Impact
- Tahoma
- Terminal
- Times New Roman
- Verdana
- Webdings
This list of fonts covers the generally available fonts across browsers and operating systems, so you can have some assurance that your website is displaying the same on your computer and your customer's computer.
So, this is the reason that we keep it simple in the control panel text editor and don't let you write your whole web site in a font that looks like it is wearing bell-bottoms.
Hi, I'm Simon Huntley, the lead developer here at 
Though you may want to use a
Though you may want to use a non-typical font on your webpage, keep in mind that simple fonts (i.e. Arial, Times New Roman) are easier to read. No one wants to spend time on a page that's too "cutesy."
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